How Event Scripts Work

Event scripts initiate operational commands when triggered by an event policy. When an event policy is triggered, this policy forwards event details to the event script. You enable event scripts by listing the names of one or more event script files within the [edit event-options event-script] hierarchy level. These scripts contain instructions that execute operational mode commands and inspect the output automatically. Event scripts are invoked within an event policy. For information about event policies, see Event Notifications and Policies Overview and Executing Event Scripts in an Event Policy.

You can use event scripts to generate changes to the device configuration by including the <load-configuration> tag element. Because the changes are loaded before the standard validation checks are performed, they are validated for correct syntax, just like statements already present in the configuration before the script is applied. If the syntax is correct, the configuration is activated and becomes the active, operational device configuration.